Fastener for screens and storm windows



- Jan.52,1923.

. 11,441,086. E. W. HESS.

FASTENER FOR SCREENS AND STORM WINDOWS.

FILED FEB. 2'4, 1921.

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UNHTED ED'WIN HESS F HATERLOD, IQ'WA.

FASTENER FOB SCREENS AND STORM WINDOWS. Application filed February 24:, 1921. Serial No. 447,518.

To aZZwhom it may concern: I pin 1. the same havii ig one end bent into a Be it known that I, Eown: \V. Hess, a crank 2. citizen of the United States of America, and The numeral 10 denotes a screw-eye fasa resident of Waterloo, Black Hawk County, tened in the sash let and receivable between Iowa, have invented certain new and useful said lugs 5 and 6 with its eye alined with 30 Improvements in Fasteners for Screens and the orifices 7 and 8 of the latter. Part of Storm WVindows, of which the following is the shaft of said pin 1 is depressed on one a specification. side at 3 as by hammering, thus widening it My invention relates to improvements in transversely and shaping it into a cam.

10 fasteners for window screens or storm win- When the pin is mounted to traverse the (So dows, and the object of my improvement is alined openings of the lugs 5 and 6 and of to provide fastening means therefor manuthe intermediate screw-eye 10 after one or ally operable from within the building, the other of the windowsashes or 16 which will clamp the screen or window has been shifted open to permit the opera- 15 tightly against its seat, and which will be tion, said pin, as shown in Fig. 1, is loose of exceedingly cheap and convenient conin its said mountings with its crank 2 turned struction. towards said window-sashes. When said This object has been accomplished by the crank 2 is rocked toward the storm window means which are hereinafter described and sash 14, as shown in Fig. 2, its widened cam 0 claimed, and which are illustrated in the part 3 exercises a stress inwardly on the 7 5 accompanying drawings, in which Figs. 1 screw-eye 10 to bind the sash 14c in tight and 2 are like horizontal sections through contact with the molding strip 12, thus sealparts of a window casing, a window sash ing the sash thereto and preventing entry and a removable storm window, showing in of drafts, moisture, or dust from without.

25 top plan my improved fastening device op- As previously indicated, this type of faseratively connected between the window tening means may have the plate 4 mounted casing and the storm window respectively on the sash 141 and the screw-eye 10 on the in loose and in engaged or clamping posiwindow casing without departing from the tions. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevation invention. The device is simple in con- 3O taken from the inside, of parts of the winstruction, and the parts may be applied to dow casing and a storm window, showing the window casing and the sash 14 from one of the fastening devices in partial secwithin the building which is a great contion. connected therebetween loosely. Fig.4 venience when used on windows of the upis an elevation of one of the cam-bearing per stories of a building.

35 securing-pins, and Fig. 5 is a perspective Having described my invention, what I 0 view of one of the lugged securing bodies. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Figs. 6 and 7 are like cross-sections of abut- Patent, is: ting parts of the storm-window casing and 1. The combination with a casing body of the window casing, respectively showing and a window body removably mounted A 40 the positions of the fastener parts as assotherein, of an orificed element mounted on ciated with the securing-pin when the latter one of said bodies, an element mounted on is in loose or in cam-engaging connection the other of said bodies having an orifice with the screw-eye. alined with the orifice in the first-mentioned Similar numerals of reference denote corelement, and a rock-shaft seated loosely in 45 responding parts throughout the several said alined orifices, having a widened part views. traversing the orifice in one of said ele- The numeral l denotes a short flat plate ments to act as a cam in moving the firsthaving a medial orifice 9, reamed to receive mentioned element in one direction.

a screw 11 whereby it may be fastened either 2. The combination with a casing body 50 to a molding 12 of a window casing 13 or to and a window body removably mounted the sash 14 of a storm window or window therein, of an orificed element mounted on screen. The opposite ends of this plate are one of said bodies, an element mounted on bent to one side to provide lugs 5 and 6 the other of said bodies having an orifice provided respectively with alined orifices 7 alined with the orifice in the first-mentioned 55 and 8 to receive the shaft of a removable element, and a crank-bearing rock-shaft seated loosely in said alined orifices, having a widened part traversing the orifice in one of said elements to act as a cam in moving the first-mentioned element in one direction.

3. The combination With a casing body and a Window body removably mounted therein, of an orificed element mounted on one of said bodies, an element mounted on the other body having vspaced orificed lugs positioned at opposite sides of the firstmentioned'eleinent with their orifices in line- With the orifice of the latter, and a crankbearing rock-shaft mounted loosely in the allned orifices of sald elementshaving a cam thereon to act, when rocked as a cam against the first-mentioned element, to shift it in a certain direction.

4. In combination, a relatively movable ring, a pair of relatively fixed spaced orificed lugs, and-a cam-bearing rock-shaft seated in the orifices of said lugs and traversing said ringvwhen the latter is between the lugs the shatt when rocked appropriately causing its cam to thrust said ring in one direction relatively to said lugs.

Signed at WVaterlo IoWa, this 26th day of January, 1921-. I a v EDWIN 

